9.00 A.M. Sandwiches

The guys on the line have their heads down, full speed ahead. I’m in the front of the kitchen watching as the servers take people through the line and get their orders. I’m looking out at the people enjoying all our hard work when I overhear one customer ordering a fried egg sandwich, “I would like one egg poached and one egg scrambled.” I roll my eyes. Are you seriously asking for that on the same sandwich?! I watch in shock as the server turns around and starts to head into the kitchen to ask if we can accommodate this insane request. I say No as nicely as possible as the server enters the kitchen because it is an open kitchen and I don’t want to look like a jerk. I have a line of forty people and thirty-five tickets on my board, and I know if I even said yes to this for sure it would not come out as the woman has envisioned, and it’s not fair to throw this curveball at my line cooks. Not to mention that it’s simply an annoying request and she should be ashamed that she asked for it!